NuVo Restaurant moving to Newport

Mark Bodenstein, chef and owner at Nuvo restaurant in Florence, announced a few minutes ago that NuVo will be moving to Newport due to the sale of the property in which they've been operating. According to an email he sent out earlier this afternoon:

We will continue to do wine dinners at our new location our next one is scheduled September 23 or 30. We are moving into the old Mokka building at 527 York St. Newport, KY. our last day of operation will be tomorrow August 2, 2008. I know this message comes quickly and I apologize for that, we have tried to delay a much as possible to finish out August but, due to the selling of our property we can not wait any longer. We hope to see you all at our new location for dinner in September. Our hours will be from Tue-Thurs 5-9 Fri-Sat 5-11. 

Great news for Newport, not so great for Florence!

CityBeat reviews NuVo

CityBeat reviews NuVo of Florence, which sources ingredients locally, in their current edition.

Video review of NuVo

Polly Campbell posted a video review of NuVo this week. 

All NuVo, all the time

In case you hadn't heard enough from me about NuVo today, I just discovered they've got their own blog.

Polly Campbell reviews NuVo

We managed to miss this when it came out last week, but Polly Campbell's review of NuVo in Florence has been published, and as we guessed from her cryptic advice a few weeks ago on The Foodie Report, it's next-best-thing to a rave.

NuVo serving Garden of Eden lamb

Eden over at Garden of Eden says Mark Bodenstein of NuVo in Florence is buying 15 racks of pastured lamb each week from her farm.

Mark, chef and owner of NuVo, posted this to the Cincinnati Local Foods Group recently:

I am on a mission to be one of the only restaurants not only in Northern KY but the Greater Cincinnati area to be 100% local supported through farms and sustainable foods. I am currently working with a handful of farms to deliver me things such as produce, meats, dairy, cheeses and whatever else I can get my hands on locally, as well as working with the local FFA to get them to grow some things for us. We are currently working on a roof top garden and that should be completed hopefullly by the spring of next year. I shop locally at all the markets on a daily basis as well.

Add that to Polly Campbell's recent review of the newly opened restaurant:

This is one of the nicest surprises I've ever had reviewing restaurants.

I'm thinking it's time to head down to Florence, y'all!

NuVo: Polly says give it a visit now

Polly Campbell says she's visited Florence's NuVo, which sources ingredients locally as much as possible, and her review will appear in the Enquirer shortly.

Her advice?

All I'm going to say is--check out NuVo in Florence. My review won't appear for awhile, but since you're a loyal blog reader, I'm just going to let you in on that.

My guess is there's a rave in store and reservations at the restaurant may be harder to come by after the review appears.

NuVo Restaurant in Florence

Polly Campbell reports there's a new restaurant in Florence, NuVo, which will be focussing on "local ingredients, or at least American ingredients." No review yet, as it just opened Tuesday. I couldn't find a website for them, but their number is 859-283-2100.

Update: their site is up! Thanks, Skyler, for the heads up!